Comments on: I'm So Confused - Y2CultTube

I'm So Confused - Y2CultTube

y2karl — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:03:17 -0800

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
The Raymond Scott Quintette - War Dance For Wooden Indians
Chic - Le Freak
Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking
Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Burning Spear - Foggy Road
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cue
Jonathan Richman - I'm So Confused

Cult music on the YouTube

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:05:18 -0800

Mimi and Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows Young Marble Giants - Credit In The Straight World Burning Spear - African Postman Captain Beefheart - I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby The Incredible String Band - Painting Box Velvet Underground - European Son Karen Dalton - God Bless the Child Yellow Magic Orchestra - Taiso Kid Creole - I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby

By: squirrel

squirrel — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:06:11 -0800

Yay! Jonathan Richmond! Is there anything that YouTube can't bring us?! Thanks, y2k!

By: MrMustard

MrMustard — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:08:14 -0800

For the Jonathan Richman links alone, this post rocks! I shall explore the other stuff at my leisure.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:14:51 -0800

Fucking cool y2karl - I met and photographed Jonathan Richmond about 15 years ago.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:17:26 -0800

Yes, I'm a starfucker ...

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:18:06 -0800

Is it so wrong that I think Jonathan Richman dancing should warrent a NSFW warning?

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:19:48 -0800

And he sighs, and everything.

By: strawberryviagra

strawberryviagra — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:20:09 -0800

Richman

By: Hicksu

Hicksu — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:21:35 -0800

Ahh Chic... I have nevey had the pleasure to be dancing somewhere and have Everybody Dance suddenly get played. I would likely explode.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:26:06 -0800

I got obsessed with that Kid Creole song last week, and now here's the video? Amazing. It's just like I pictured it!

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:35:47 -0800

I once listened to European Son over 90 mins over and over for driving in rural MN, in order to keep awake

By: newfers

newfers — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:38:54 -0800

Worth it for the rare Beefheart sighting! He's crazy as a loon, but I love the guy!

By: melissa may

melissa may — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:39:24 -0800

I love you so damn much y2karl.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:58:13 -0800

Coincidentally, I was just watching the Beefheart "Booglarize" clip just a couple of days ago, and thought how *early-80's* the ol' Captain looked in 1972! At that point he hadn't quite gotten his desert hobo shaman look together yet, he appeared more like a paunchy Holiday Inn lounge singer. Which was a cooler look than even he was probably aware of. Beefheart is, of course, one of the great oddball iconoclastic bandleader geniuses of rock history. And how 'bout his band's moves in that vid? Slamming!

By: muckster

muckster — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:02:24 -0800

Karen Dalton!

By: melissa may

melissa may — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:08:07 -0800

I forgot to add that if you want to see one of the many reasons I was always a little sad to be too young to ever be Jonathan Richman's g-i-r-l-f-r-e-n, here you go.

By: numlok

numlok — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:08:52 -0800

OMFG. Too good... Damn you y2karl for making me stay up past bedtime on a schoolnight!

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:18:50 -0800

Recent years have seen a great upsurge of interest in Raymond Scott's music, thanks in no small part to the tireless efforts of the estimable Irwin Chusid.

By: photoslob

photoslob — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:20:00 -0800

Jonathan Richman does not blink. I'm not kidding. Look for yourself.

By: photoslob

photoslob — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:24:27 -0800

Oh, and btw, I just got back from seeing these guys live and they fucking rocked. Do yourselves a favor and get out from behind your keyboard and go see them in person.

By: facetious

facetious — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:26:27 -0800

thanks you, jonathan richman is so, so, so good!

By: numlok

numlok — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:45:23 -0800

Ps. Is Joanna Newsom lined up for the 2026 list?

By: quarsan

quarsan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:07:15 -0800

I saw Burning Spear in Brussels earlier this year. How good was he? this damn good - you tube link

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:51:32 -0800

Great post, y2k -- but the Incredible String Band? Not only did they suck, but they all went mad and joined the Scientologists! For any poor soul who happened to accidentally click on that link, I've got the antidote for your sore eyes and ears right here: Bo Diddley

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:07:55 -0800

And my other great find of recent times -- from Detroit, 1964 on the Golden World label: The Reflections - Just Like Romeo and Juliet and thirty years later

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:26:16 -0800

Before skins were racists there was: Skinhead Moonstomp!

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:50:11 -0800

I met and photographed Jonathan Richmond about 15 years ago. I met Captain Beefheart when he was working with the line-up in the second clip, almost thirty-five years ago: either on the Spotlight Kid or the Clear Spot tour. (I worked at the same venue for both tours and I had to take him to our local guitar shop to buy strings for the band.) He was as weird in real life as he was on the albums. Have you ever had a conversation with somebody about something that's supposed to be really practical, but you just can't follow along? Both gigs were stunning though, and both albums rate among his very best.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:13:03 -0800

PeterMcDermott, thanks for reminding me of the Bo. That's a great clip, I love how's he's just so chill, so nonchalant. And he had a full-time maracas player! Bo Diddley was just the coolest goddamn thing ever. Ever.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:17:35 -0800

Jonathan, you're crazy for taking that bus! At any rate, no listing of cult music could possibly complete without a mention of Pere Ubu.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:58:45 -0800

The Pere Ubu videos won't be up for long.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:01:03 -0800

Check out the Mad Captain on click-clack with two ex mothers Roy Estrada and Artie Tripp. Rock on y2karl and thank you for the trip down memory lane. Burning Spear Live in Paris was one of the first albums I ever downloaded.

By: emf

emf — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:40:58 -0800

Magazine - Shot by Both Sides.

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:46:06 -0800

More Beefheart

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:06:39 -0800

Bo Diddley was just the coolest goddamn thing ever. His *name* is a guitar riff. How could he not be the coolest thing ever? The way he dances in that clip is so fine. It's like a Chuck Berry duckwalk, but without playing to the crowd, just grooving to the music. What I was really looking for was a copy of Bo performing 'Who do you love', but I've not seen one turn up yet.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:33:51 -0800

yay for raymond scott getting captured on film. I was a fan of his through his medium of Carl Stalling for years.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:36:32 -0800

My fav Kid Creole tune: Endicott

By: carter

carter — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:48:47 -0800

Yikes! Thanks y2karl! And thanks for Magazine link, emf; pity it's cut off by Kid Jensen's mug ...

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:49:29 -0800

Was not Was: I Feel Better than James Brown

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:00:23 -0800

Shriekback - Lined Up

By: carter

carter — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:02:21 -0800

Lots of early stuff - Ramones, Siouxsie, Joy Division, X-Ray Spex, Penetration, Orange Juice, Only Ones, Psychedelic Furs, The Fall, The Gang of Four, The Ruts, Cabaret Voltaire, etc. collected here ...

By: imperium

imperium — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:02:45 -0800

I was about to watch the Pere Ubu ones when I discovered that the Protocols of the Elders Of Ubu (extra-snotty edition as linked to by ardgedee) were opposed to it. So I didn't bother, and may never find out what made people think they were so great.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:05:04 -0800

Dammit, y2karl, I've got two deadlines today, and they're forecasting high winds and thunderstorms, I've got to get the stuff done and out of here, and you do this to me! *bookmarks feverishly, bows in the Master's direction*

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:10:41 -0800

Ok, I never criticize a Karl masterpiece, but why is Mimi and Richard Farina - Pack Up Your Sorrows in this cult list? They were folk singers, not new wave. Also. I swear thats a double post, but I cant find it in this great thread. It's a lovely song but it doesn't fit in.

By: carter

carter — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:26:47 -0800

Classic - Joy Division - Transmission - (with bonus John Cooper Clarke).

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:31:56 -0800

I saw Jonathan Richman perform live last year. I'm not ashamed to say... I cried a little.

By: shecky57

shecky57 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:32:38 -0800

Chic? Cult? Wasn't that top ten?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:43:05 -0800

I don't want to go to work today because of your post, y2karl. Thanks!!!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:47:54 -0800

Nice Finds: Box Tops - Soul Deep (w/Alex Chilton interview) The Dictators cover "Search & Destroy" at CBGB's Blue Cheer "Summertime Blues" The Fastbacks - Waste Of Time Moby Grape - Hey Grandma Motorhead & Girlschool - Please Don't Touch (check out Philthy cutting a rug) My beloved Bellrays coverin AC/DC The MC5 on local TV MC5 Again Jason & the Scorchers cover Dylan's Absolutely Sweet Marie

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:49:44 -0800

Heh. I happened to have a Richman album playing in the car a couple of months ago, and when "I was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" came on, it blew my wife's mind more thoroughly than any other music I've ever seen. It was amazing... it's like her synapses are set up on some weird Richman-Sapphic-Rhythm resonance frequency.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:51:24 -0800

Lemmy & Wendy O. do a touching duet

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:55:30 -0800

Ahh, The Fastbacks. Shitdamn that's a band I haven't thought about in a long time. RE: Jonathan Richman, I have only one thing to say: I EAT WITH GUSTO, DAMN YOU BET!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:57:51 -0800

and may never find out what made people think they were so great. Seeing is believing. They still tour every once in a while I think. Go check them out for yourself live, you won't be disappointed. On a personal note, I'm not a big fan of Jonathan's but I have probably seen him more than any other national act (except maybe GBV). I had a girlfriend when I lived in Seattle in the 90s whose large circle of friends would obsessively go to see him - and drag me along - when he came to town (which was frequent). I have little been to more a dozen JR shows, while I don't dislike him, I never fully grasped why people felt so passionately about him.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:00:21 -0800

I have ~~little been to more a~~ literally been to more than a dozen JR shows. Ugh. Not enough coffee.

By: imperium

imperium — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:05:41 -0800

Memphis Slim - Every Day I Have The Blues Canned Heat - Let's Work Together Stereolab - Wow and Flutter Handsome Boy Modeling School - Rock N' Roll Could Never Ever Hip Hop Like This Throwing Muses - Hate My Way (badly synched, I'm afraid) Captain Beefheart - Electricity Jethro Tull - A Song for Jeffrey De La Soul - Me Myself and I Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:06:32 -0800

I never fully grasped why people felt so passionately about him. Odds on someone bringing Dylan into this thread: 1:1

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:09:44 -0800

The Goo Goo Dolls and Lance Diamond (don't get me wrong, the Goo Goo Dolls suck ass everywhere else, but the unstoppable showmanship of Lance Diamond shoots this performance straight up to the top of the awesomesphere)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:10:08 -0800

and Jonathan Richman doth rock. 'Road Runner' is one of the best rock songs. ever.

By: Pendragon

Pendragon — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:11:28 -0800

Electric Six - Gay Bar

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:14:44 -0800

and Meatbomb: I fucking love 'Endicott,' man. good call.

By: imperium

imperium — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:16:58 -0800

Electric Six - Gay Bar (Bush and Blair version)

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:17:35 -0800

Richard and Mimi Farina! Y2Karl, you rock (folk style)

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:23:10 -0800

Coven

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:26:15 -0800

Why wouldn't you mention Fad Gadget ?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:28:18 -0800

Coven?

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:46:26 -0800

Coven!

By: pax digita

pax digita — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:53:47 -0800

imperium, thx for that -- I wondered if I'd hallucinated that one, back in the day. Meatbomb, here's another Shriekback one: Nemesis.

By: leftcoastbob

leftcoastbob — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:13:29 -0800

Weird Al Yankovich. (Sorry. Sometimes I feel as though I have Tourette's of the keyboard.)

By: JT

JT — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:28:05 -0800

Billy Nayer Show - Billy Nayer Billy Nayer Show - Must Be Santa That 1 Guy - One Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling Dead Milkmen - The Puking Song (@ MTV) The Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant (live in Japan) The Gits - Seaweed Fear - I Don't Care About You (live @ SNL) Fear - Beef Balogna & New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones (live @ SNL)

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:32:23 -0800

Awesome!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:35:42 -0800

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Prologue Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop Maytals - Sweet And Dandy Howlin' Wolf - Down In The Bottom Maytals - Treat Me Bad Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up Sun Ra _ Space Is The Place Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop Yellow Magic Orchestra - Happy End Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi Bad Manners - Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu Telex - Twist A Saint Tropez Yma Sumac - Tumpa Yellow Magic Orchestra - Epilogue

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:38:06 -0800

Thanks so much y2karl (and everyone else). The Raymond Scott video was wonderful and that drummer was amazing.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:43:32 -0800

The Pretty Things - Midnight To Six The Legendary Stardust Cowboy on Laugh-In Rose Tattoo - Branded Wendy O. Williams - It's My Life

By: SansPoint

SansPoint — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:44:54 -0800

Ubu's stance appears to be about concert clips. I think the music videos are fair game. Waiting For Mary is amazing, by the way.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:49:15 -0800

Alice Cooper on Beat Club

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:55:27 -0800

Cracking post, cracking supplementals in the comments - cheers everyone! Though 'cult' does seem to mean 'globally megafamous' for the purposes of this post? Why wouldn't you mention Fad Gadget ? May he rest in peace. Two years ago I found every Fad Gadget 7" ever released in a record shop in Leeds for 10p each, mint condition. I was smiling for about a month.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:56:55 -0800

In Shreds by The Chameleons (U.K.)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:08:11 -0800

Raven - On & On Manowar - Blow Your Speakers

By: brevator

brevator — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:13:34 -0800

the raincoats can the birthday party big black

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:17:23 -0800

jack_mo, may Fad Gadget rest in peace indeed. I still smile when I think of the initial effect that his earnest-togue-in-cheekiness made on me.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:33:43 -0800

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier Though 'cult' does seem to mean 'globally megafamous' for the purposes of this post? Sorry if I'm not playing this right... based on the original links in the FPP I thought cult could just be synonymous with "Whatever vaguely alternative stuff Meatbomb thought was cool in the 1980s" y2karl: you get 20 bonus points for linking Toots and the Maytals... Sweet and Dandy, irie mon!!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:45:17 -0800

Laura Nyro - Sweet Blindness John Fahey - Red Pony Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Ring Dang Doo Johnny Ray - Such A Night David Grisman Quintet - Naima Dick Dale & The Deltones - Miserlou Shirley Ellis - The Name Game

By: mokey

mokey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:51:37 -0800

Why not check out my music video blog? It's all culty and everything!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:09:44 -0800

Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy singing a Christmas song with a couple of Sex Pistols The Standells on The Munsters Anthrax on Married With Children

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:14:18 -0800

AWESOME!

By: xod

xod — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:33:18 -0800

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Mona Donovan - Three Kingfishers 13th Floor Elevators - Your Gonna Miss Me Roky Erickson - White Faces The Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road

By: xod

xod — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:43:15 -0800

Bongwater - You Don't Love Me Yet

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:49:56 -0800

y2karl, I think I can say with confidence that your posts have made me happier than anything else on MetaFilter. Still working my way down your original sets during breaks and looking forward to everyone else's contributions. Renewed thanks.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:58:25 -0800

Devo Corporate Anthem; Satisfaction; Jocko Homo; Girl U Want.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:02:00 -0800

for jonmc: Speaking of novelty appearance stuff and Christmas music, I may have the perfect reference for you: The Monkees -- Riu, Riu Chiu

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:14:17 -0800

ha! I remember that! thanks pax.

By: xod

xod — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:49:06 -0800

Nina Hagen - Naturtrane

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:53:17 -0800

Am i a hopelessly snarky flame troll (don't answer that) -- and no, i did not read the 89 other posts, and yes I am a bit late on the scene here, shut up, no you shut up! -- But does "I was dancing in a lesbian bar, aoup!" lack a certain cultic power? I mean, it's not as if the lyrics are sort of woven into the sound-fabric, for us to decipher. He's making sure we hear EVERY EARTH-SHATTERING WORD of that sentence, making our very astral beings quiver like bacon-flavored jello molds.

By: Sk4n

Sk4n — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:59:18 -0800

Lynott and the Sex pistols singing We Wish You a Merry Chrismas was one of a number of, er..numbers they did together as "The Greedy Bastards". I see the they are more politely referred to in a caption on the video as "The Greedies". More info at Answers.com among other places.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:53:29 -0800

Solex Boredoms OOIOO Jonathan Kane The Residents (NSFW- computer generated fat naked man) Otomo Yoshihide

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:58:52 -0800

I have never heard of any of these songs or bands, but the sheer exhuberance of the replies to this post has infected me and I look forward to watching all these clips when I get home. (You know, instead of studying.)

By: mongonikol

mongonikol — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:04:32 -0800

Incidentally, meatbomb and pax digita, the new Shriekback album is called Cormorant.

By: Jeff_Larson

Jeff_Larson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:49:43 -0800

Wow! Late to the game, but "I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar" is my favorite JR song ("I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby" is up there for Beefheart).

By: Jeff_Larson

Jeff_Larson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:58:47 -0800

The Bongwater clip is great too. Made my dark winter day!

By: spacely_sprocket

spacely_sprocket — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:10:17 -0800

Heh. Just yesterday I happened across Kid Creole on YouTube. But it was this live version of Lifeboat Party. That in turn led me to thinking about some other contemporary tuneage, which led to this: Ebn Ozn's AEIOU Sometimes Y, something I haven't heard for 20 years. Which somehow led me to this: X Los Angeles. I forgot how hard X rocked. Thanks for extending my trip down memory lane into a second day with your great post. Think I'll go look for some live Clash.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:20:35 -0800

Christ, X was a great band. They're about the last band for whom I remember running out to the record store literally the minute I heard they had a new album out. Thanks for that clip.

By: glycolized

glycolized — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:53:08 -0800

I'm delighted to see so much Beefheart in this thread. I had picked through youtube and google a while back, so I've seen most of these clips, but I'm glad to see that many others are enjoying them.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:49:16 -0800

Captain Sensible - Wot (featuring the The Dolly Mixture) The Dolly Mixture - Been Teen The Rezillos - Destination Venus The Undertones - Teenage Kicks Hawkwind - Silver Machine The Art Ensembe of Chicago Richard Hell & the Voidoids- Blank Generation/Love Comes In Spurts Suicide - Ghost Rider Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot Neil Young - Wonderin'

By: milovoo

milovoo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:07:20 -0800

I had been lamenting the loss of the original MTV (with videos) for lots of years now, but now I can line up hours of playlists, sit back and enjoy as many music videos as I want in all their low-res glory. It's like the spring has come again after a long winter. Some currrent favorites ... Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon - World Destruction Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today A.C. Marias - One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) Martha and the Muffins - Black Stations/White Stations Shellyann Orphan - Burst / Shatter Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck Chemical Brothers - Get Yourself High Big Black - Bad Penny / Racer X

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:18:52 -0800

I forgot how hard X rocked. Still do, man. Still do. If I'm not mistaken, I think that footage you linked to is from a set of live recordings they put out last year. If you want to pick up The Decline of Western Civilization in your local independent vid store, you'll see that they rocked pretty hard in 1981 as well. To this day (to my taste at least), I don't know how X does not come out on the top of every single Greatest American Rock Band of All Time list. I love this post. Such a treasure trove.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:19:18 -0800

Hah! Take the Skinheads Bowling! My downstairs neighbor did the video. I'm pretty sure that's him making coffee and looking out the window in the beginning And I suppose I should give in to hometown pride and post this old gem: Þeyr - Blood

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:26:34 -0800

The Goo Goo Dolls and Lance Diamond Nice memories. Btw, I still think that's the best cover of "Bitch" I've ever heard. I remember when the Goo Goo Dolls were a pretty serviceable punk rock band. What the fuck happened to those guys?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:34:23 -0800

Some more: Minor Threat - Screaming at a Wall Jesus Lizard - Seasick Girls Against Boys - Superfire Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:36:30 -0800

I am the god of hellfire and I bring you...

By: kimota

kimota — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:37:51 -0800

Haysi Fantayzee: "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" "Shiny Shiny" Jeremy Healy has a myspace page. Kate Garner is a photographer now. Go figure.

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:41:16 -0800

Cuz each time I see you, I just want to cry

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:47:05 -0800

Y'know, this thread has covered a shitload of territory from Howlin' Wolf to Manowar to Haysi Fantayzee. This shows that this site has a broad sprectrum of utter geeks. Whether it's testosto-rock, synth-pop blues or whatever, we're utter dorks about it and we should be proud. How bout a group hug? I'll even let you grab my ass.

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:47:06 -0800

Hey, Wim, get a load of these guys...

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:44:09 -0800

Oh. Oops.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:02:51 -0800

You should already know Wire then.

By: arto

arto — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:44:27 -0800

Frank Zappa - Suicide Chump The Tielman Brothers - Rollin' Rock (Instrumental rockabilly from Indonesia with the Best. Stage Moves. Evar!) Lil' Bobby Bleed - I Got My Mojo Workin' (Raw n' raunchy one-man-band insanity) Fugazi - Break

By: neuron

neuron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:29:43 -0800

I met Captain Beefheart... Zoot Horn Rollo (guitarist on Trout Mask Replica) lives just down the street from me, but I haven't met him yet. Gotta work on that.

By: theemperorhasnoclotheson

theemperorhasnoclotheson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:33:51 -0800

Bakerman

By: asok

asok — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:34:43 -0800

Jeremy Healy has a myspace page. Why does this amuse me so much? Either it is an elaborate hoax or other 'superstar-Djs' are leaving comments. And he has Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb as his background music. Anyway, those 80s cult clips: The Swans - A Screw/Holy Money (Raping a Slave) Bauhaus - Bela Lugusi's Dead Newcleus - Jam On It Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce The Butthole Surfers - Suicide, BBQ Pope and Wooly Bully live in 1983 The Butthole Surfers - Cherub (excellent video) The Butthole Surfers - BBQ Movie (comedy gold) Big Black - Bad Penny (yes that is Steve Albini) Scratch Acid - Cannibal (live at the reform gig this year)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:15:34 -0800

Jonathan Richman also has a Gumby song that rocks.

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:54:27 -0800

Finally, the post that makes me go from lurker to member. This was amazing, thanks y2karl. But I noticed a serious omission... Laurie Anderson: Smoke Rings, Language Is A Virus From Outer Space, O Superman My older sister brought Anderson's Home of the Brave video concert back home from college one Christmas in the mid 80s and my brain has been warped ever since. And still, in the past 20 years, I've only met one or two people who have even heard of Laurie Anderson. So she's "cult" to me. :)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:36:47 -0800

Mark me as a LA fan. Got all her albums, got her music on my iPod.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:15:03 -0800

I've never before seen the O Superman video. Thank you. My god, the woman is a genius.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:02:32 -0800

Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - Whispering Red McKenzie & Eddie Condon - St. Louis Blues Red McKenzie - I Ain't Got Nobody Bobby Hackett's Jazz Band - At The Jazz Band Ball Coleman Hawkins - Meditation Boswell Sisters - Crazy People Coleman Hawkins & Charlie Parker - Ballade Thelonius Monk - Rhythm-A-Ning Sonny Rollins - Weaver Of Dreams Horace Silver Quintet - Cool Eyes

By: numlok

numlok — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:13:26 -0800

Earl Scruggs & Steve Martin - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

By: obvious

obvious — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:59:56 -0800

The Nihilist Spasm Band - Meat Eater

By: pax digita

pax digita — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:24:33 -0800

More lurve for Ms. Laurie Anderson from over here. Back in the day, I wanted to have her children. Or something. The Strangers - Golden Brown

By: numlok

numlok — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:01:35 -0800

Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral and My Trial Bob Neuwirth at the Gaslight Cafe - Rock Salt and Nails Johnnie Taylor - Rome (wasn't built in a day) The Cramps - Tear it Up The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - I Put A Spell On You Richie Havens - Freedom (Woodstock, 1969) The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py / Jungle Man Biz Markee - Benny and the Jets Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Vibrating Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mea Culpa The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child The Residents - Constantinople My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow Lee (Scratch) Perry - I am the Upsetter The The - This is the Day The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom The Pogues - Dirty Old Town Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 ;)

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:41:46 -0800

Can anyone find the SNL footage of the Beastie Boys playing Radio radio with Elvis Costello?

By: spacelux

spacelux — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:30:52 -0800

Fantastic thread. Late to the party, but my addition is: Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:25:37 -0800

I suppose I contributed to this upthread, but I think there's a fundamental difference between a cult artist, and one that is universally acknowledged by those "in the know" to be great, but still relatively obscure. Jonathan Richman, who will attract the same 100 people in every city in America when he's doing shows into his 80s is definitely one of the former. The Grateful Dead was probably the purest example of this, though probably the least interesting. Laurie Anderson, Captain Beefheart and a lot of the other artists mentioned here seem to me much more part of the latter. Or did I get something wrong here?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:31:44 -0800

Jonathan Richman, who will attract the same 100 people in every city in America when he's doing shows into his 80s is definitely one of the former. Well, he happened to play the last two nights in Seattle and there was about that many people present last night despite the wind and rain. The show was great if more on the dancing and guitar playing end than then on the singing and for good reason, as it turned out. When he came out after the show, he was miming and writing notes in response to people's questions and comments--he's got vocal chord trouble and on doctor's orders, he can't talk other than onstage during the show. That he comes out and schmoozes with his fans after a show is one thing I have always liked about him. Two years ago, when he was here last, I traded a Proper doo wop box set for a happy birthday phone call to Tina, which was so nice of him. And he remembered me, the doo wop and the phone call. What a guy. I saw him at the OK Hotel here about twelve years ago and witnessed a girl coming up and saying tentatively,

'Hi, Jonathan, you may not remember it but I sent you a tape of Italian pop last year and... --Oh, you must be Kathy! I really liked that tape--that was so nice of you, thank you so much!...'

And then he launched into a brief dissertation on Italian pop and why he liked it. It was pretty amazing, all things considered, that he would remember the tape, the name of the person who sent it and that he took such time to talk to anyone who came up after the show. I have seen him do it many times since--he remembers people, their names and their stories from the last time he saw them and takes an extraordinary amount of time talking to them. I can't think of another musician who treats his or her fans so well. He really enjoys doing it. He comes across in conversation as a sort of Control Normal, far more well adjusted and positive than the average bear. It is always such a hit, a natural high to go see him live. Even his off nights are better than 90% of any live shows one can see. Another odd note--nearly half the songs he sang were written and sung in Spanish, Italian and French. Or it seemed. But he did do Old World. And Lesbian Bar, but of course.

By: redsparkler

redsparkler — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:50:22 -0800

You know, I like to imagine how it looked, that once upon a time when Jonathan really was dancing in the lesbian bar. I bet it was wonderful.